Brown University Engineering

It's Postdoc Appreciation Week! We ❤ our Brown Engineering postdoctoral researchers! National Postdoctoral Association

Brown's Initiative for Sustainable Energy hosted its inaugural Subra Suresh Symposium at the Frontiers of Technology and Society yesterday, with a focus on renewable energy, carbon capture and energy-efficient technologies. Brown's experts combined with other leaders like former Energy Secretary and Nobel Laureate Steven Chu in the day-long conference.

At inaugural technology and society symposium, a focus on sustainable energy solutions A daylong conference brought together experts from Brown’s School of Engineering and beyond to spark collaborations in renewable energy, carbon capture and energy-efficient technologies for a sustainable future.

Brown's Initiative for Sustainable Energy is hosting the inaugural Subra Suresh Symposium at the Frontiers of Technology and Society, inviting several distinguished scientists and engineers to campus. Nobel Laureate, former U.S. Energy Secretary, and Stanford University's Steven Chu gave the opening plenary, while Sarah Kurtz (NAE member, UC Merced) provided the keynote.

In honor of , we share The Atlas of Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists. This resource showcases the excellence of nearly 400 outstanding scientists. https://www.fredhutch.org/en/about/about-the-hutch/faculty-affairs-and-diversity/atlas-of-inspiring-hispanic-latinx-scientists.html
The effort designed to highlight outstanding scientists and faculty members from the Hispanic/Latinx community was developed, created, and led by a group of scientists that included our own Ph.D. candidate Carolina Gomez Casas of the Shukla Lab!

Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists The Atlas of Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists is a grassroots effort developed to showcase the expertise, talents, and diversity of Hispanic and Latinx scientific faculty.

A symposium was held in Professor Eric Suuberg's honor at the Denver meeting of the American Chemical Society in August. Suuberg was selected the 2024 Distinguished Researcher by the Energy and Fuels Division of the ACS. Back row (L-R) are Suuberg and his wife Ina, Mrs. Winans and Dr. Randy Winans of Argonne National Laboratory, Professor Jane Fountain-Serio (UMass Amherst), Professor Andy Herring (Colorado School of Mines), Brown Professor Bob Hurt, Professors Doug Kriner and Jillian Goldfarb (Cornell University) and Jinxia Fu (University of Hawaii). Front row is Alessandra Suuberg '11, Marek Wojtowicz and Mike Serio (Advanced Fuel Research, Inc.) Professor Hsisheng Teng of National Cheng Kung University with his wife and daughter, and Professor Yijun Yao of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Speakers in the symposium were Winans, Hurt, Goldfarb, Fu, Wojtowicz, Mike Serio, Teng, and Yao. Organizers of the event were Mike Serio, Wojtowicz and Fu.

Alan Mach and Jason Pien have been awarded scholarships from the national Tau Beta Pi Association, based on the competitive criteria of high scholarship, campus leadership and service, and promise of future contributions to the engineering profession. Congrats! 📚 🎉

National Tau Beta Pi organization awards scholarships to two Brown engineers Brown seniors Alan Mach and Jason Pien have been awarded scholarships from Tau Beta Pi for their final undergraduate year. The engineering honor society announced the selection of 253 engineering students throughout the country and awarded funds based on the competitive criteria of high scholarship,...

Leaders of Brown's Initiative for Sustainable Energy have been awarded a $1.3M grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for further study on the mechanical behavior of charged hetero-interfaces.

Padture, Qi awarded $1.3M Department of Energy grant Brown Engineering professor Nitin Padture is the principal investigator (PI) and Yue Qi is the co-PI on a $1.3 million, three-year grant from the Department of Energy (Basic Energy Sciences) for the project, “Fundamental Studies of the Mechanical Behavior of Charged Hetero-Interfaces.” Mechanica...

Reminder to vote before Friday. Top three vote-getters will advance to pitch and compete for the award on 9/26!

Voting is open for Innovation of the Year 2024, and 5 of the 7 finalists are from Brown University Engineering!
Public voting will remain open until September 13, when a top three will be identified. Cast your vote now ➡️ https://bit.ly/3MzKsAP

ICYMI: Brown University Engineering welcomes Assistant Professor (Research) Jihun Lee and Assistant Professor Peipei Zhou to faculty positions on College Hill this fall!

Brown welcomes talented group of 67 new faculty members Representing a wide variety of disciplines and backgrounds, the scholars join the Brown community to guide student-centered learning and engage in high-impact research.

Voting is open for Innovation of the Year 2024, and 5 of the 7 finalists are from Brown University Engineering!
Public voting will remain open until September 13, when a top three will be identified. Cast your vote now ➡️ https://bit.ly/3MzKsAP

Entrepreneurial spirit: Brown undergraduate alumni rank #22 for startup founders, according to the latest Pitchbook report:

PitchBook Universities: Top 100 colleges ranked by startup founders - PitchBook PitchBook's annual list compares undergraduate and graduate programs by tallying up the number of startup founders among their alumni.

So excited to welcome our newest first-years to campus, and to Brown University Engineering!

Photos: Incoming students get step up in engineering pre-orientation program With an emphasis on community and inclusion, the inaugural Brown Summer Transition Engineering Program is preparing incoming undergraduates to thrive in engineering before their studies officially begin.

Brown Engineering's Alex Zaslavsky and Brown University Department of Physics' Gang Xiao, together with Engineering's Bill Patterson and colleagues from Tufts and CoolCAD Electronics, have been awarded funds toward the development of a novel cryogenic camera.

Zaslavsky, Xiao awarded $3.4M in Army Research funds for cryogenic magnetic camera Brown University Professor of Engineering and Physics Alex Zaslavsky and Physics Professor Gang Xiao, together with Distinguished Senior Engineer Bill Patterson and colleagues at Tufts and CoolCAD Electronics, have been awarded funds from the Army Research Office toward the development of a novel cr...

Engineering Professor Arto Nurmikko created one of four biomedical innovative projects chosen by an internal program aimed at accelerating medical solutions into commercial technologies. Nurmikko is developing a minimally invasive EEG technology for long-term recording of seizure activity, based on a new subdermal wireless sensor concept—an unobtrusive multielectrode strip that is insertable in a doctor’s office.

Brown Announces Funding for Biomedical Innovations Brown Announces Funding for Biomedical Innovations 0 By Jonathan Garris on August 2024 Faculty, Hospitals, News, Research Accelerator fund helps advance faculty projects with potential to improve research and patient care. Four faculty proposals for emerging biomedical technologies each received $10...

A team of researchers from Sandia National Labs and Brown have introduced a universal way to accelerate virtually any kind of simulation. Fourth year Brown University Engineering Ph.D. student Vivek Oommen of the CRUNCH group is the first author of this paper.

Swifter simulations for modern science. All of it A universal accelerator finds faster answers to complex problems, propelling scientists closer to insights about the effects of drugs on cells or the potential of rocket engines to send humankind to Mars and beyond.

Our inaugural resident STEP (Summer Transition Engineering Program) is underway, where participants have already taken what they learned in lecture, adjusted calculations through experimentation in the lab, and presented findings to the cohort. One goal of STEP is exposure to key mathematical concepts and problem-solving exercises that engineers are likely to encounter during their first year of studies. The School of Engineering is excited to host this pre-orientation program designed to foster inclusion, community, and the inspiration needed to thrive at Brown University Engineering.

Congrats to our staff award winners from the 2023-24 academic year, Aaron and Rita! The two were honored today at the Brown University Engineering annual faculty and staff summer gathering.

Fitzgerald, Masri named Engineering staff award winners for 2024 The Brown School of Engineering has awarded its annual Dean’s Service and Spirit of Excellence awards for the 2023-24 academic year. Human Resources Specialist Rita Fitzgerald was awarded the Dean’s Service award, while Grants and Contracts Specialist Aaron Masri received the Spirit of Excellenc...

Congratulations BrainGate on 20 years of BCI research and its infinite possiblities!

The five-day camp at Brown’s Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics included a mid-week visit to Brown University Engineering, organized by Associate Professor Dan Harris, where students were introduced to impact dynamics, structural optimization, surface tension and more.

Rhode Island high schoolers embrace STEM lessons at ICERM’s Girls Get Math program The five-day camp at Brown’s Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics engages students in hands-on math activities and advanced computational labs, guided by experts.

The places they'll go! Take a peek at just a few of the summer experiences of our rising juniors and seniors.

Summer experiences for Brown Engineers We asked Brown Engineers from the classes of ’25 and ’26 to tell us about their 2024 summer internships and research projects. These summer positions often play a crucial role in shaping one’s career, not only helping a student gain real exposure to working environments, but also developing th...

Professor of Brain Science Leigh Hochberg is among the Brown scientists and alumni who contributed to a clinical trial in which a participant with ALS regained nearly fluent speech using a brain-computer interface.

A.L.S. Stole His Voice. A.I. Retrieved It. In an experiment that surpassed expectations, implants in a patient’s brain were able to recognize words he tried to speak, and A.I. helped produce sounds that came close to matching his true voice.

GGM, a high school program sponsored by , welcomes rising 10th/11th graders and seeks to motivate young adults to consider careers in mathematics and computational fields. Campers spent Wednesday , experimenting with modules that included impact dynamics, making materials on computers, detecting sea ice, surface tension, structural optimization, making gold nanoparticles, and crashing drones.

Congrats to our Brown University Engineering alum Henry Hollingsworth '22 for the men's 8 bronze medal in Paris! 🥉

Brown University grad Henry Hollingsworth wins bronze in men's eight at Paris Olympics Brown University graduate Henry Hollingsworth and Team USA rowed to a bronze-medal finish in the men's eight Saturday at the Paris Olympics.Great Britain won go

Day 2 of the Brown University Summer Research Symposium included more than 23 engineering-affiliated projects. Congratulations to all of our 2024 undergraduate researchers!

Day 1 of the 2024 Summer Research Symposium at Brown University featured our engineers in the life sciences. Tomorrow, physical and social sciences will take the floor, with even more engineering projects to be shared.

Brown Engineers participate in University’s 2024 Summer Research Symposium From left to right: Associate Professor Ian Wong, Postdoctoral Research Associate Hyeontae Jeong, and Zhuoyang Lyu ’25. Lyu presented the poster “Understanding cellular migration patterns using deep attention model.”

#BrownCurious: What is the science behind swimming? What is the science behind swimming, and how do Olympic swimmers swim so fast? Athletes use forces such as thrust and drag to improve their performance. Thru...